Worldwide equivalent of Microsoft Streets and Trips?
In traveling around the US and Canada Microsoft Streets and Trips has been very useful (the program is kind of a copy of DeLorme’s Street Atlas). You can type in an address or find a museum and then ask “show me the airports within a 20-mile radius”. It seems to have all the general aviation airports in the U.S. at least. Sadly, however, this program runs out of data when you get beyond North America (and coverage of Mexico is thin). Does anyone know of similar software that covers Europe? Central and South America? Asia?
ionel
November 13, 2003 @ 6:17 pm
well I guess Streets and Trips is “derived” from MS Map Point, which is available in Europe and works as you describe.
Tomi
November 13, 2003 @ 6:18 pm
May be you want MS MapPoint Europe version. check out coverage infor at the bottom of this page: http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/2004/europe.mspx
Chris Lightfoot
November 13, 2003 @ 6:34 pm
Software I don’t know about, but you could try http://www.multimap.com/, which does a decent job in the UK at least. (Amusingly, the Multimap people have a patent on, roughly, “drawing a map and then drawing a symbol on top of it”, which may explain the lack of decent competitors.)
Lance Knobel
November 13, 2003 @ 8:32 pm
The best coverage I’ve found is Maporama http://www.maporama.com/share/ . I’ve used it to plan journeys from London to both France and Italy. And I’m currently in Australia on business and it has found every address I’ve needed. The dropdown menu of countries seems to promise coverage just about everywhere, but I haven’t tested the more obscure places.
Anand
November 14, 2003 @ 12:25 am
Though Maporam does a decent job if you want to look at a high level map of India, it will not be able to give you driving instructions etc. I am sure this is the case for a lot of Asia. Most Map applications currently cover NA, Europe etc. So I would recommend that you get yourself a local guide/friend if you are going to roam around in Asia or Africa.
Maciek
November 14, 2003 @ 1:07 am
There is an European version of Streets and Trips called AutoRoute. You can see it here: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/homepc/autoroute/default.mspx and you can purchase it through Amazon UK.
anonymous
November 14, 2003 @ 11:51 am
We’re actively working towards adding more countries; the main problem is getting reliable road network data in a format that doesn’t require thousands of hours of bug-prone hand work to incorporate. –A. Nonny Mouse, MapPoint Employee
Lexing
November 15, 2003 @ 10:06 pm
microsoft autoroute, the european twin of s&t, available at amazon.co.uk etc.
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/homepc/autoroute/default.mspx
Regina M. Mayo
November 15, 2003 @ 10:36 pm
Interesting story
rob
December 4, 2003 @ 3:55 pm
Wake Forest University ( http://www.wfu.edu ) sent a class to Europe with PocketPCs last summer and used the TomTom city maps with a great deal of success: http://www.tomtom.com/
They are pretty expensive but cover most western europe. Here are the coverage areas:
http://www.tomtom.com/products/content.php?ID=216&Section=1298&Language=4
Looks like they support PocketPC only. Handango has some individual maps for sale that are not available on the TomTom site.
WKA
January 18, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
I have Streets and Trips and contacted MS for getting the files to extend it to Europe for a trip there. It seems like they could sell upgrade data at a reasonable price for other regions of the world. The answer from Microsoft was that we don’t do it that way, but you can buy another program in the UK or Europe at the full price. Instead I got a used copy on Ebay for a small fraction of the euro cost.
Comment to A. Nonny Mouse: Suggest to the powers that be there that they might make more money by being more customer friendly. I might have been interested in South American data earlier this year.
Pranav
September 29, 2008 @ 3:35 am
Way Finder Navigater is a good option in India. Alternatively, try google maps.